Basket-making machine



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INVENTOR June 23, 1925.

` 1,542,930- J.' G. EKLUND I BASKET MAKING MACHINE- Filed July 13, l922 s snags-:sheet s.

Wm WT A Patented June 23, 1925. v i 17,542,930'1 a; UNITED' STATES" PATjENrafoFEICE;ai

JOHN G. EKLUND, or sr. `lJosnrn, ivIIo'rIIeAN, assIGNoa 'ro inon Wonks,t

or's'r. JOSEPH, MICHIGAN, A eonronnrrou*oni/Ironman. y *f lmisknrivrAKINGfinformani' l.applieat'imi sien :my 1s, 191222. serial No; 574,753; i

T all whom it may con-cera: f f means lof `the mechanism soA far described, Be it kno-wn that I, JOHN Gl EKLND, athe shaft 17 is Vdriven,interrr'1ittently, or with citizen of the United States,-residingat St. a step-bystep motion, in onefdireetion 'duri Joseph, in the county of'Berrien and 'State ing rotation ofthefshaft 11, i

of Michigan, have invented' new and useful Uponthe'end of shaftv 17 remote lfromthe 60 Improvements in Basket-Making Machines, gear 16, a pinionV 18 is mountedtofoperate I of which the following is a specification. v the form 19; The latter jcarriesa rack 20 This invention relates to basket making preferably in spaced-relation thereto as seen machines, and it aims to provide an im.- in Figures ,3f and 4, 'andthepinion- 18 l0y proved means for operating and guiding the meshes ,with said rack so that :rotation of 65 form upon which the basket is stapled.v f, shaft 17 moves the form. In order to sup- V The invention has various other aims port the form inv proper position, 'a square which will appear from thev following decrosshead 21 isprovid'ed,'this crosshead-bescription of a preferred ,embodiment thereof. ing in Vturn supportedby vthe main frame The invention preferably is used in conand being received between a slot 21a and 70 nection with machines for making fruit bas a pairfof slidesf21'0 provided within the inkets, particularly those baskets of'oblong terior yof the form. The square ycrosshead`21 formk having rounded endsV and tapering is shaped as best seenin Figures 3 and 7, sides known to the trade as Climax :bas-v so that theform is permitted toslidein a 2 0. kets. The present machine is an improve longitudinal direction upon the crosshead 75 ment 0n the machinepatented November14, but cannot move inpplanes transverse'with 1911, No. 1,008,455. A f f respect yto the form. kOne means ofsupport-l y In the accompanying drawings showing ing the crosshead 21Yas shownv in; the drawfan illustrative embodiment of theinvention, ing includes a "non-revolving'v shaft 22 `sc f Figure 1 isa perspective view of a basket cured by screws ZQLFg. 1)' upon a bracket ,0 stapling machine equipped with. .the im- 23supported by the Vmain frame. The rear proved form `and form operating mechapartofcrosshead 21 maybe circular in sec# nism; l tionihand thecrosshead is bored interiorly Figurek 2 is anelevation showing the form as shown, SO that 559.1112157 TGYOlVabOu't Shaft 30 and its mounting;v p v i Figure 3 lis a vertical section on the line In order yto control thevmoveinentsjof the 3-3 of Figure .2;v n form there is providedfa 'formiguide Figure 4 is a horizontal section online' bracket 24 wlChS beldupon the frame and l 4-4 of Figure 2; whose construction vwill be understood from Figure 5 is a side elevationv of the form Figures4, aand 6. Thefform guide bracket 99 guide bracket; andV y y 24 has a circular bo'ref25atone end so as Figure 6 is an elevation of the .same lookto, enablethe ,circular partfof the crosshead ing from the right hand end of'Figure 5. 21 to pass therethrough, andthe bracket end Figure7 is a cross section on the line 7-7 which has the circular bore '25 is circular f4.0. of Figure 3. y .f shaped as seen, in `Figure l5. The-forrnpar- .95

'Referring more specifically to the illustraallel guide bracket also has ka pair ofguide tive embodiment of the invention shown in strips or tracks 26 and`.27,the guide strip the drawings, and irst'particularly to .FigT 27 being straig t and extendingl between the ure 1, the basket stapling machine includes bore 25 and the smalle-rend ofthe guide 'T45 a base and main frame 10, which supports a bracket butY terminatingsomewhat rshortof 100 driven shaft 11, rotated y by .anyfdesirable that end. The guide strip 26. is straight for means, for example by .a belt and pulley. a portion of itslength, but includesanarcuv Upon the shaft 11 a crank disc or eccentric ate section 26'aL which extends about the pe- 12`is made fast, and a'pitmanl connects ripheryof thecircular portion of the guide 22 Vas an aXiswhen theform 19 revolves.

X the crank disc with a ratchet mechanism 14 bracket. #The arcuate. extent. ofthe Vguide of any well known construction. The strip 26a issomewhat less than a semi-circle, ratchet 14 is operatively connected with a and inthe preferred embodiment shown in gear y15 supported upon the frame 10 and .the drawing, approximates 14591 :The form driving a smaller ygear 16 secured upon a guide bracketis mounted uponthe ,machiney shaft 17,v shown .in Figures 2,v 8 and 4. By .frame sothat .the strip 26 isuppermost and f the straight section thereof is horizontal. whereupon the guide strip 27, being parallel thereto, is likewise horizontal.

The rack 20 supports a pair of rollers 28, 29, one at each end thereof as shown in F igures 2 and 4. These rollers are designed to travel between and in contact with the guide strips 26 and 27 and to `run along the inner face of strip 26a so as to maintain the teeth of the rack 2O directly in mesh with the teeth of the pinion 18 and so as to give the required movement to the form.

When the pinion 18 is rotated intermittently in the direction lindicated by t-he arrow Ain Figure 2, the form will travel horizontally in the'indicated direction until one of the rollers 29 reaches the extremities of the guide strips 26 and 27, when, as shown in Fig. 2, the guide 27 no longer offers a support for said roller. Continued rotation of the pinion will cause the form to swing in a counterclockwise direction, about shaft 22 as an axis, as shown in dotted lines in F ig. 2, and the roller 28 will then engage the inside surface of the 0'uide strip 26a. During the swinging of form the teeth of the rack will always be maintained in mesh with the pinion, because of the arcuate shape of the guide strip 26l and because it is concentric with the lshaft 22. lhen the form has been swung into horizontal position again, the roller 28 will be received between parallel guide strips 26 and 27, whereupon the form will travel for the second time in the direction indicated but upside down as Vcompared to its initial position, that of Figures 2 and 4. Thus it is seen that principally because of the construction of the -form guide bracket 24, the `form is constrained to move first in a horizontal direction, then to rotate through one-half of a revolution and then to move longitudinally for the second time, and finally to rotate once more` through one-half of a revolution, whereupon a basket which is mounted upon the form will have been presented to the stapling mechanism throughout it-s entire perimeter.

It will be understood that the pinion 18 is given an intermittent motion in orderI that the basket upon the form may move step by step, and so that after each step of such movement, a staple or the like is driven into the basket.

While I have described and shown a preferred embodiment of the invention, it will be understood that many changes involving omission, substitution, alteration and reversal of parts may be made without sacrificing any of the advantages of my invention, which is best defined in the following claims.

What is claimed is:

1. In a basket stapling machine of the type employing a traveling basket form and aving a frame and means for intermittently driving the form, the combination therewith of a form guide bracket affixed to the frame, said bracket having a pair of parallel ly driving the form, the combination there-1 with of a form guide bracket affixed to the frame, said bracket having a pair of parallel guide strips one of which Vis shorter than the other, the longer guide strip joined with a substantially semi-circular guider strip, and a pair of rollers on opposite endsI of the form adapted to move along said guide strips and between the parallel portions thereof to control the mot-ion of the form.

3.`In a basket stapling machine of the type employing a traveling basket form and having a frame and means for intermittently driving the form, the combination therewith of a form guidebracket atlixed to the frame, said bracket having a straight guide strip terminating short of both ends, and a longer guide strip parallel to the short guide strip and extending to both ends of the bracket, ,a portion of the longer guide strip being arcuate, and rollers carried by the form and adapted to travel along and between said guide strips to control motion of the form 4. A form guide bracket for basket sta-y pling machines having means for attachment to the machine frame, a pair of guide strips projecting from one face thereof, said strips being parallel fora portion of the length of .the bracket, and one strip terminating short of each bracket end, the other strip having an arcuate portion extending beyond one end of the shorter strip.

.5. A form guide bracket for basket staplingmachines having means for attachment to the machine frame, a pair of guide strips projecting from one face thereof, said strips being parallel for a portion of the length of the bracket, and one strip terminating short of each bracket end, the other strip having an arcuate portion and extending to the bracket ends.v j Y 6. A form guide for'basket stapling machines having meansV forl attachment to the machine frame, a pair of guide strips' projecting from one'face thereof, one guide strip extending continuously throughout the length of the bracket and having an arcuate portion at one end of the bracket which is nearly a half circle, the other guide strip being shorter and terminating short of both bracket ends and parallel to the longer guide strip, the short guide stripV extending beyond the point where the straight portion of the longer guide strip merges into the arcuate portion.

7. A form guide bracket for basket stapling machines having means whereby it may be secured in position between the form and the frame of the machine, and having guide members or tracks projecting from one face thereof, one guide member being straight for a portion of its length and arcuate for the remainder of its length, the terminal of the arcuate portion being in line with the straight portion of said guide member, the other guide member beingparallel to said straight portion and of approximately the same length but longitudinally displaced relative to said straight portion by a short distance.

8. In a basket stapling machine of the type employing a traveling basket form and having a frame and means for intermittently driving the form about a shaft as an axis, the combination therewith of a form guide bracket affixed to the frame, said bracket having a pair of parallel: guide strips one of which is shorter than the other, the longer guide strip joined with an arcuate guide strip, and rollers on the forni adapted to move along said guide strips to control the motionof the form, said arcuate guide strip being concentric with the axis about which the form revolves and adapted to provide a track for one of the rollers during the major part of each half Y guidegbracket fast to the frame and providing two spaced tracks ext-ending toward the form, and rollers carried by the form and adapted to travel along and between sur v faces of said tracks during movement of the form, said tracks being so shapedv as to control the movement of the form in alternate straight line paths while permitting it to swing through half a circumference about the axis of the crosshead as a center at the end of each longitudinalmovement.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signature.

Jol-IN G. EKLUND. 

